Year: 1995
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Over the years, Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) in the Internet protocol (IP) suite has become the most widely used form of networking between computers.With the recent developments in high-speed networking and applications that use TCP, performance issues in TCP are of increasing interest and importance.The performance (e.g.throughput, number of dropped packets, etc.) during the start-up epoch is of particular concern, because an increasing number of applications use TCP for short data transfers, which complete before TCP even settles into its steady-state behavior.During this initial epoch, as TCP hunts for reasonable operating parameters, its congestion control and avoidance schemes display interesting transient dynamics that affect the performance.I would like to thank my thesis advisor, Dave Clark, for his guidance and support and for generously sharing his knowledge and ideas.I appreciate his patience while I tried to find my way through this project.His intuition and enthusiasm about networking and the social grace with which he delivers his ideas have been very inspiring.I thank John Wroclawski, who has put a lot of time into helping me get started with this thesis and giving me technical guidance along the way, for his support and for many interesting, informative discussions on various technical, non-technical topics.I also thank Karen Sollins for
Author: Janey C. Hoe
Language: English
Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: Division of Graduate Education
OpenAlex ID: W2165694816